Financial Times special report

'Business Guide to Derby'

Posted on 23 November, 2011

 

 

Whether it is the prayers of the faithful in Mecca or international trains from London to Paris, Smith of Derby keeps them to time.

 

The family owned clockmaking company, founded in 1856, boasts an enviable list of timepieces in famous locations, including the Grand Mosque at Mecca, St Paul’s Cathedral and St Pancras Station tower clock in London and the Custom House on Shanghai’s waterfront Bund.

 

It includes the clock that gave Arsenal’s Highbury stadium its Clock End, now moved to the Emirates stadium, and the highest above street level in the world, 170m up at Boeing’s headquarters in Chicago.

 

Bob Betts, Managing Director, says its international push has enabled the business to prosper during tough times in the UK, but has placed new demands on its clockmakers in Derby.

 

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